Families speak out against doctor who said ‘death from cancer is the best’

January 2, 2015 7:03 PM

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Cancer sufferers are firing back at a British doctor who wrote in an esteemed medical journal on Wednesday that dying of cancer is preferable to other causes of death, news.com.au reported.

Dr. Richard Smith, an honorary professor at the University of Warwick, raised eyebrows this week when he wrote on the British Medical Journal’s blog that “death from cancer is the best” because it isn’t sudden. He argued that cancer victims who die of the disease have time to say goodbye to their lo...